How well do food distributions predict spatial distributions of shorebirds with different degrees of self-organization?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 747-756

  Folmer, Eelke O ^a   Olff, Han ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conspecific attraction; Interference; Low tide shorebird monitoring; Predictive power of resource based models; Resource distribution; Self organization; Wadden sea

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; PREDICTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; ROOST SITE; SELF ORGANIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WADER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NETHERLANDS; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

ANIMALIA; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; NUMENIUS ARQUATA; PLUVIALIS SQUATAROLA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NETHERLANDS; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 77957688787     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01680.x     Document Type: Article

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